Two executioners with pinafores reversed, led me in.
She had been a rosy-cheeked young damsel in pinafores at the time of that event, too young to express any strong feeling upon the subject of her mother's second choice; but not too young to feel the loss of her father very deeply.
Well,” he said, “I can’t sit and sew strings onpinafores like you.
All this time troops of children came pouring in from the neighboring villages with pinafores on the end of broomsticks as flags of rebellion.
Until girls are fifteen they should always wear pinafores of some kind.
The dreadful deaths from burning, which so often occur in winter, too frequently arise from cotton pinafores first taking fire.
It would be well for the children of the poor to have pinafores made either of woollen or of stuff materials.
When you were in pinafores I made up my mind that you were the future Mrs. Tregonell.
Perhaps, if you had told me your intention while I was in pinafores I might have grown up with a due appreciation of your goodness.
The pinaforesand jackets that had been bathed in gold-fish-and-water were hung out to dry, and then it turned out that Jane must either mend the dress she had torn the day before or appear all day in her best petticoat.
With this and a kiss, she plumped the Lamb into Anthea's arms, and went back to make new pinafores on the sewing-machine.
The children wear grass-cloth pinafores and very little else, no shoes or stockings, Manilla or Chinese slippers being worn by those who dislike bare feet.
Aunt Plenty sowed gingerbread broadcast; Aunt Jessie made pinafores by the dozen while Aunt Jane "kept her eye" on the nurses, and Aunt Myra supplied medicines so liberally that the mortality would have been awful if Dr.
Presently they trod upon their pinafores and fell on their noses.
They turned theirpinafores back to front and went up with a skip and a jump; Moppet's white tucker fell down into the road.
Moppet and Tom descended after her; the pinafores and all the rest of Tom's clothes came off on the way down.
Mrs. Tabitha dressed Moppet and Mittens in clean pinafores and tuckers; and then she took all sorts of elegant uncomfortable clothes out of a chest of drawers, in order to dress up her son Thomas.
He was particularly attracted to one group consisting of three funny little girls with splashed pinafores and holes in their stockings, and of two little boys with holes in their knickerbockers and half-peeled sticks.
There was laughter and shouting, and a confusion of pinafores and black stockings and hair and caps.
There too sat Em and Lyndall, in clean pinafores and new shoes.
Their dress was of dark, coarse stuff; their common blue pinafores reached to their ankles, and on their feet they wore home-made velschoen.
Gribble junior's baby was sleeping peacefully beneath the umbrella tent, the gay outside of which had caused the two old men to go for two other old men, and the girls in dirty pinafores to go for other girls in dirty pinafores.
Oh, the guns—do you remember the guns, and the pinafores and the sunbonnets?
Clothes were a necessary evil, but sunbonnets and pinafores were the worst and most evil things of all—and not to be endured when Mammy Amy was not around, and the big show guns offered such a safe and charming hiding place.
They knelt upon the cardinal's very feet, rapturously kissing his red-gloved hand and clasping to their pinafores and blouses the sacred trinkets he distributed.
But this gentle maker of pinafores had never yet assumed a tangible shape.
They turned their pinafores back to front, and went up with a skip and a jump; Moppet's white tucker fell down into the road.
The pinafores and jackets that had been bathed in goldfish-and-water were hung out to dry, and then it turned out that Jane must either mend the dress she had torn the day before or appear all day in her best petticoat.
I believe they were sweethearts in their pinafores a hundred years ago; so she has been awfully nice to me.
Bless you, she had long outgrown short frocks and pinaforesin those days.
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